http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/jujuman13/ Non-biased and non-partisan political forums. Debate topics may include breaking news today, media bias, abortion, warfare, conspiracy theories, economics, climate change and health care discussion. en Mon, 20 May 2013 00:03:12 GMT vBulletin 60 http://images.debatepolitics.com/misc/rss.jpg http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/jujuman13/ http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/jujuman13/31-obama-administration-job-sen-specter.html Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:45:34 GMT Link http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/an-obama-administration-job-for-senator-specter.html Quote(Sources tell ABC News that Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pennsylvania, has informed the White House that he would like to consider remaining in public service after his Senate term ends at... Link
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Quote(Sources tell ABC News that Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pennsylvania, has informed the White House that he would like to consider remaining in public service after his Senate term ends at the end of this session, and White House officials are keeping an open mind about possible job openings for him.)

Oh for goodness sake Barak, hasn't he done enough ass licking, give this switcher a job beyond the end of his Political career (assuming that he ever had a Political career). ]]> jujuman13 http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/jujuman13/31-obama-administration-job-sen-specter.html http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/jujuman13/15-sad-farewell-helen-thomas.html Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:15:18 GMT Link to story in Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060704184.html?sid=ST2010060701502 In this blog I do not seek to defend Helen Thomas. What I am seeking are comments on her having Freedom of Speech as guaranteed by the American... Link to story in Washington Post.
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In this blog I do not seek to defend Helen Thomas.

What I am seeking are comments on her having Freedom of Speech as guaranteed by the American Constitution.

IMHO I believe that she has been denied that right.

Over the years she has undoubtedly been a Journalist who sought to get answers to the most pressing problems besetting the USA, the fact that she questions people in an extremely biased way is perhaps regrettable, but this was her job, get the story, write it up, ensure it was printed.
Up until her recent resignation she and her methods of gaining news was applauded, she was likened to an English Bulldog who having got a bone between it's jaws was not going to drop it until it had extracted the marrow from within.

That she may have been an Anti Semite was never suggested prior to this incident and in my own mind I firmly believe that she was not.
It is very true that her family had emigrated from Lebanon prior to her being born in America, it is likely that her family had decided views about Lebanon but those views would not have necessarily been Anti Semitic as Jewish Immigration into the Middle east was not at that time of any importance (I am talking of the era 1920s).
Helen Thomas answered a question by saying that the Jews should return to their (previous) homelands, and suggested Poland/Germany/USA.

It is true to say that the Holocaust took place in Poland and Germany, so far as I am able to determine it NEVER took place within the USA.

But, everyone and their dog immediately jumped on those two Nations where the Holocaust had been carried out to it's most extreme extent.

Helen Thomas had made NO mention of the Holocaust, she was not suggesting that the Holocaust was in any way acceptable.

All she was suggesting was that Jews should return from whence they came
prior to coming to Israel to settle down and create a Nation.

For these words that she spoke, everyone who felt they had been mistreated by her during her long career jumped on to her and suggested that she was saying something quite different from what she actually did say.

Now it is very true that sometimes we all say things that we do not mean, that perhaps with a little thought we might have phrased differently, but for this woman to be castigated NOT for what she actually said BUT for what people thought she said is, to be honest,disgusting. ]]> jujuman13 http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/jujuman13/15-sad-farewell-helen-thomas.html http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/jujuman13/4-obama-s-security-strategy-falls-short.html Mon, 31 May 2010 03:52:44 GMT Link http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/86aac118-6c16-11df-86c5-00144feab49a.html Quote(I might be prejudiced. To judge the content of the statement, you have to overlook the way it is expressed, which is not easy. It was run through a management-speak machine. It emerged, repetitious and full of... Link
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Quote(I might be prejudiced. To judge the content of the statement, you have to overlook the way it is expressed, which is not easy. It was run through a management-speak machine. It emerged, repetitious and full of misprints, with added verbiage and reduced intellectual content. Then it was put through a second time.)

Now I wonder why this is such a surprise to anyone.
Naturally what came out was essentially pure Obamaese.
God help us all, with regret nothing Obama proposes will!! ]]> jujuman13 http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/jujuman13/4-obama-s-security-strategy-falls-short.html